Yellow Wallpaper Depression

The Yellow Wallpaper Depression is a mental health disorder that many people struggle with throughout their lives. In the short story The Yellow Wallpaper the main character, also the narrator, is suffering from depression. The narrator feels that her chance of individuality would support her healing from her disorder. Her husband John, a doctor, treats his wife and believes that the she should do nothing but rest. Jennie, John’s sister and also the housekeeper for the family, helps lead the narrator down a dark path by causing doubt and fear to rise. The Yellow Wallpaper is a tragic story in which all the characters have the best intentions to set the narrator free from depression only lead to her psychotic break. The narrator, who is never named, is round and a dynamic character due to the overwhelming mental changes she possess throughout the story. The wife and mother tells her story through her secret journals, revealing the darkness that takes over her mind and leads her to believe she is actually the woman in

John loves his wife; he wants to cure her from the mental aliments. John is a doctor and presumes he knows best meanwhile his ego and lack of communication with his wife plays a big role in her insanity. At some points in the story it seems like John is treating her more like an experiment by placing restrictions on exercising her mind to limit her imagination. He struggles to listen to his wife, and cares little about her opinions. “He laughs at me so about this wallpaper!”(528). John believes by keeping his wife secluded and from working or exerting any energy she will recover. “There comes John, and I must put this away- he hates to have me write a word.”(528). John’s ego and unwillingness to listen leads his wife down a path of loneliness which does not help her to heal, instead it destroys them both at the end when his adoring wife no longer recognizes